In the late 1990s until her death in 2002, Barbara Howard returned to her lifelong fascination with light, night skies, the reflective surface of water. In these paintings, the recurrence of circular elements, an abstraction of natural forms and a balancing of darkness and light all suggest the artist's deep feeling for the natural world and a celebration of its unity.
"The circle, sphere or mandala forms in my work often refer, sometimes obliquely, to the sun, as a symbol of the totality, the wholeness of the universe, the power of the illumined intellect over the darkness of ignorance." ~ Barbara Howard
